{"id":50301,"date":"2022-01-29T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T09:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/kashmir-doctors-body-says-no-need-to-panic-over-neocov-virus\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T09:12:57","slug":"kashmir-doctors-body-says-no-need-to-panic-over-neocov-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50301","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Doctors Body Says No need to panic over NeoCov virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, Jan 29:<\/em><\/strong> With apprehensions among people about newly discovered coronavirus, called NeoCov, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said there is no need to panic as the virus is confined to animals and does not cause human infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNeoCov has been found in bats and in its current form there is no threat of the virus jumping from bats to humans,\u201d said DAK President and Influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hassan said NeoCov is not a new virus nor is it a variant of Covid-19. It was first identified around 2013 in bats in South Africa, while looking for the origin of MERS, a coronaviral disease that was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere has been no confirmed case of NeoCov in humans so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAK President said news reports about NeoCov virus\u2019s potential to kill one of every three infected persons are doing the rounds on the internet for the last couple of days. The news is based on a preprint paper by Chinese researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is little connection between the paper and inference that have been drawn by news reports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe researchers clearly say that the virus which exists in bats cannot infect humans except in case the virus undergoes a particular type of mutation which is a mere speculation,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea that NeoCov may be able to infect human beings is in the realms of theory and should not be a cause of concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Secretary DAK Dr Arshad Ali said coronaviruses are often found in animals, including bats which have been identified as a natural reservoir of many of these viruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot everything jumps to humans and there is no way of predicting anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is important that we must continue surveillance of zoonotic pathogens as the likelihood of potential spillover events from animals to humans is possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jan 29: With apprehensions among people about newly discovered coronavirus, called NeoCov, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said there is no need to panic as the virus is confined to animals and does not cause human infection. \u201cNeoCov has been found in bats and in its current form there is no threat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}